Each bridge position will support a new faculty member at a university or a new staff member at a national laboratory through a 50% cost-share with the host institution for up to six years. 

For the 2024-2025 year, we called for proposals from academic institutions for bridge faculty searches. The deadline for complete proposals to be submitted was 1 October 2024. Proposal requirements are described here.

Bridge faculty

• Bridge faculty are outstanding junior experimentalists who hold the promise to pursue strong experimental research programs based at FRIB or developments for FRIB.
• Bridge faculty are 100-percent employees of their home institution, with all the associated benefits.
• Bridge faculty are expected to build a research group, attract federal funding, and have teaching and other duties, equivalent to the other faculty at their home institution.
• In addition, bridge faculty are expected to contribute significantly to the scientific program at FRIB and be spokespersons for FRIB science, nationally and internationally.
• They are expected to spend time at FRIB and, for this reason, teaching relief could be negotiated on a case-by-case basis.

In the first round for the 2023-2024 year, two faculty searches were approved at the physics departments of Mississippi State University and the University of Kentucky.